“The fact that file sharing goes on, and is as popular as it is, is an incredibly positive thing for the music industry. The fact is that music is so popular that people are willing to break the law to get it.” PeopleFactsLawBreakWillingGoes OnIndustryMusic IsFilesMusic IndustryPositive ThingsFile Sharing Author:Dave Rowntree
“An ex-girlfriend once got upset when I told her that music is the most important thing in my life. It's more important than anyone else could ever be. I don't want to be overly dramatic and say it's the only thing that gets me up and keeps me going. But people in your life come and go. As you go through your life, you make friendships, you break friendships, you have relationships. Music is the one thing I've always been able to rely on.” PeopleWantImportantAbleBreakOne ThingMusic IsImportant ThingsUpsetDramaticGirlfriendRelyExesComes And GoesPeople In Your LifeEx Girlfriend Author:Ben Gibbard
“A more interesting question is not 'Why did they break up?' but 'Would they have gotten back together?' ... There's always a chance we'd work together again, but I can't see us touring. I just see us making records.” I CanTogetherChanceInterestingMusicBreakRecordsMusic IsWorking TogetherTouringBack TogetherTogether Again Author:John Lennon
“I write pretty often. I have a home studio. Music is what I do for fun. I never get tired of it, so to take a break from [TV and movies], I would go make some music.” WritingHomeFunBreakTvsMusic IsTiredStudios Author:Queen Latifah
“I really enjoy writing lyrics, I enjoy harmonies and I enjoy hearing the organic side of production because I have to do so much non- organic for a living for other artists, it's just a break for me, for my ears and it confuses people that think my music is supposed to sound like the stuff I do for my day job, but that's just people that don't know me.” PeopleThinkingKnowsWritingJobsArtistStuffEnjoySoundSidesBreakMusic IsEarsHarmonyProductionsHearingKnow MeDay Jobs Author:Butch Walker
“Mozart's music is free of all exaggeration, of all sharp breaks and contradictions. The sun shines but does not blind, does not burn or consume. Heaven arches over the earth, but it does not weigh it down, it does not crush or devour it.” DoeEarthHeavenBreakSunMusic IsBlindShiningCrushContradictionExaggerationArchesSun Shines Book:Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Source: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
“It's a mystical quality of music, that music isn't really concrete, and it's communicating abstractions about imaginary worlds. At least, my music's like that. It's not real. It's unreal, it's all fabrication. To write a song about Obama would suddenly break the spell.” WorldWritingRealSongQualityBreakMusic IsCommunicateSpellsConcreteImaginaryMysticalAbstractionUnrealFabricationImaginary World Author:Sufjan Stevens
“The way that music is approached in the temple is very call and response; it breaks down that barrier between performer and audience.” WayBreakAudienceMusic IsResponseTemplesBarriersPerformersBreaking Down Author:Taraka Larson
“In all honesty, based on the direction my life was heading in before I got a real break in the music sh*t, I'm not gonna say I would be one hundred percent in a negative direction, but I know that I would still be in the streets, so if it wasn't for the music bein' my outlet, I'd probably be hustlin', I'm pretty sure I wouldn't be able to go and get a nine-to-five, I never finished high school or none of that.” IfsKnowsStillsRealWould BeAbleSchoolBreakFiveStreetsHonestyMusic IsPercentHundredHigh SchoolNegativeFinishedNineOutletsHeadings Author:Nipsey Hussle
“Being in country music is what I love. It's who I am. Being able to be a gay man in country music and continue to break down walls and change hearts and minds has been really important to me.” MenMindHeartImportantCountryBreakWallGayMusic IsBreaking DownHeart And MindGay Men Author:Ty Herndon